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  Summary report: study on the impact of the implementation of the convention on the rights of the child

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2004

  This report examines how the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has been implemented, the impacts it has had on the daily lives of children, and the extent it has made to advance their human rights and generate social change.
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  Reducing maternal and child mortality in Bolivia

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2000

  This paper, produced by Partnerships for Health Reform, reports on an evaluation of the Bolivian National Insurance for Mothers and Children (SNMN) programme. The paper finds that utilisation of formal maternal and child health services has increased as a direct result of the implementation of SNMN, particularly among the poor and among adolescents.
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  Priority service provision under decentralization: a case study of maternal and child health care in Uganda

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 1999

  This paper from Partnerships for Health Reform reports on a study to examine the impact of health sector decentralisation in Uganda on maternal and child health (MCH) services.
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  Cost-effective strategies for achieving polio eradication: lessons from Turkey and Cambodia

  Partners for Health Reformplus, 2001

  This paper, from the Partnerships for Health Reform Project, reports on two case studies on the cost-effectiveness of mixed operational approaches to polio eradication. The two case studies, Turkey and Cambodia, involved mass immunisation campaign approaches that combined both fixed site immunisation with targeted house-to-house immunisation.
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  Closing the quality chasm in child abuse treatment: identifying and disseminating best practices

  National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center [Medical University of South Carolina], 2004

  This report, produced by the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center (Medical University of South Carolina, USA), is the result of an extensive assessment of the current forms of therapeutic intervention used by those working with the victims of child abuse and their families in the US.
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  Recognizing childhood illnesses and their traditional explanations: exploring options for care-seeking interventions in the context of the IMCI strategy in Ghana

  Medline, 2003

  The capacity of carers to recognise the symptoms of serious illness is only one of many reasons why sick children are not being taken to health facilities in poor countries.
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  Child survival 2: How many child deaths can we prevent this year?

  The Lancet, 2003

  Two thirds of child deaths in poor countries could be prevented using interventions that are readily available today, according to this article, the second in The Lancet child survival series.The authors consider the effectiveness of available interventions in combating the main causes of death among children under five (diarrhoea, pneumonia, measles, malaria, HIV/AIDS and the underlying effect
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  Non-specific effects of vaccination on child survival: prospective cohort study in Burkina Faso

  British Medical Journal, 2004

  This article from the British Medical Journal reports on a study which explored the effects of vaccination on mortality among children up to two years old in rural Burkina Faso. The study found that those children who had been vaccinated with BCG had significantly lower mortality, as did those vaccinated with diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis.
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  Interim report of task force 4 on child health and maternal health

  Millennium Project, 2004

  Important gains were made in the area of child survival during the second half of the twentieth century. However, in many parts of the world, mortality declines have slowed or stagnated; in others they have reversed. Inequalities in health status and in access to health care are wide and deep.
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  Health research for equity in global health: statement by the Global Forum for Health Research

  Global Forum for Health Research, 2004

  This statement, published by the Global Forum for Health Research, reports on its eighth annual meeting, held in Mexico City from 16-20 November 2004, which considered how health research could be used to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

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